The History of Greece: From Its Conquest by the Crusaders to Its Conquest by the Turks, and of the Empire of Trebizond: 1204-1461 |
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... immediately CHAP . I. dependent on political causes , connected with a vicious administration of the government , and on moral ones arising out of a corrupt state of society , than on the desolation produced by foreign invaders . The ...
... immediately CHAP . I. dependent on political causes , connected with a vicious administration of the government , and on moral ones arising out of a corrupt state of society , than on the desolation produced by foreign invaders . The ...
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... immediately preceding the con- quest of the Morea by the Turks , the Albanian population more than once assumed a prominent part in public affairs , and at one time they conceived the project of expelling the Greeks themselves from the ...
... immediately preceding the con- quest of the Morea by the Turks , the Albanian population more than once assumed a prominent part in public affairs , and at one time they conceived the project of expelling the Greeks themselves from the ...
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... immediately restored the ancient standard . But the Byzantine financial system , though constructed with great scientific skill , was so rapacious that it appropriated to government almost the whole annual surplus of the people's ...
... immediately restored the ancient standard . But the Byzantine financial system , though constructed with great scientific skill , was so rapacious that it appropriated to government almost the whole annual surplus of the people's ...
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... immediately with the formation of the Norman principalities , must not be received as true according to the letter . The sudden arrival of a ship of Amalfi , with forty Norman pilgrims , on their return from a pilgrimage to the Holy ...
... immediately with the formation of the Norman principalities , must not be received as true according to the letter . The sudden arrival of a ship of Amalfi , with forty Norman pilgrims , on their return from a pilgrimage to the Holy ...
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... immediately em- barked on board the vessels in the port , and put to sea . Tancred abandoned his station in the Propontis , and , col- lecting the shattered remnants of the army as well as he was able , returned to Sicily . Even ...
... immediately em- barked on board the vessels in the port , and put to sea . Tancred abandoned his station in the Propontis , and , col- lecting the shattered remnants of the army as well as he was able , returned to Sicily . Even ...
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